Jsonnet - Data notation

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Jsonnet is a data notation created in 2014 by Dave Cunningham.

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10Years Old

1kRepos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/google/jsonnet

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Jsonnet website
Jsonnet is developed on GitHub
There are at least 1,430 Jsonnet repos on GitHub
Jsonnet is a superset of JSON
Jsonnet first developed in Google
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 104 users using Jsonnet in 190 repos on GitHub
jsonnet.org was registered in 2015

Example from the web:

// A function that returns an object.
local Person(name='Alice') = {
  name: name,
  welcome: 'Hello ' + name + '!',
};
{
  person1: Person(),
  person2: Person('Bob'),
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Comments	✓		// A comment
MultiLine Comments	✓	/* */	/* A comment */
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Semantic Indentation	X